Re: [PATCH-for-10.1 v3 2/9] hw/intc/gicv3_its: Do not check its_class_name() for NULL

[Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>]

On 4/3/25 10:40 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Since commit cc5e719e2c8 ("kvm: require KVM_CAP_SIGNAL_MSI"),
> its_class_name() single implementation doesn't return NULL
> anymore. Update the prototype docstring, and remove the
> pointless checks.
>
> Reported-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>

Eric
> ---
>  include/hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its_common.h | 2 +-
>  hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c               | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its_common.h b/include/hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its_common.h
> index 7dc712b38d2..3c7b543b018 100644
> --- a/include/hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its_common.h
> +++ b/include/hw/intc/arm_gicv3_its_common.h
> @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ struct GICv3ITSCommonClass {
>   * Return the ITS class name to use depending on whether KVM acceleration
>   * and KVM CAP_SIGNAL_MSI are supported
>   *
> - * Returns: class name to use or NULL
> + * Returns: class name to use
>   */
>  const char *its_class_name(void);
>  
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> index 3ac8f8e1786..9b7fc99f170 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt-acpi-build.c
> @@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ build_madt(GArray *table_data, BIOSLinker *linker, VirtMachineState *vms)
>                                            memmap[VIRT_HIGH_GIC_REDIST2].size);
>          }
>  
> -        if (its_class_name() && !vmc->no_its) {
> +        if (!vmc->no_its) {
>              /*
>               * ACPI spec, Revision 6.0 Errata A
>               * (original 6.0 definition has invalid Length)
> @@ -973,7 +973,7 @@ void virt_acpi_build(VirtMachineState *vms, AcpiBuildTables *tables)
>                            vms->oem_table_id);
>      }
>  
> -    if (its_class_name() && !vmc->no_its) {
> +    if (!vmc->no_its) {
>          acpi_add_table(table_offsets, tables_blob);
>          build_iort(tables_blob, tables->linker, vms);
>      }